Word: libraryful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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At Palo Alto, scholars are given a private study, meeting rooms, a dining room, and use of the Stanford University library. In addition, secretarial and research assistance are provided. Special arrangements are made to facilitate work on projects.
The Center, which is to be located at the corner of Brattle and Hilliard Sts., will contain classrooms and a working library as well as two theatres. The large auditorium will seat 515 people, while a smaller experimental theatre will have a seating capacity of 100.
Originally, the Annex had visions of a completely "free" library, with reserve books left on open shelves and students left on their honor to use these books briefly and in specified places. However, as is frequently true, the 'Cliffie soon discovered that what works well in theory fails in practice...
Despite this apparent step backward for the honor system, the library has never found it necessary to install a check station, such as the ones in Widener and Lamont, where students must stop and prove that they are not absconding with illicit volumes. Furthermore, the method of checking out books...
The present system, which has gained the cautious approval of deans and students alike, has developed cyclically over a half century. During the general unrest of the nineteen-twenties, Radcliffe girls were bound by a social system of comparatively stringent rules. With the thirties came the progressively greater freedom that...